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Does anyone know of a company that produces N scale or close to N scale container ships....if so who? I haven't been able to find anything so far, and I think I might just have to scratchbuild one to fit my needs....any help with this would be appreciated Thanks Ed Burchell Iron Ridge Railroad

Quick Tip Here's a tip for anyone that lights their structures. Try gluing the negatives from your developed film in behind window panes. This especially works well for buildings that are in city or town scenes and make the buildings come alive at night with activity. Ed

If anyone is interested in this, I found that scratchbuilding 40 ' box cars and passenger cars and any other car that is box like in shape can be easily made by using a lego template 2 blocks high and 2 1/2 blocks long...It is perfect height to hold all the sides together at right angles until...

I have just found a trick that I never knew until today...Lego pieces are exactly the same size. It makes a perfect base for scratchbuilding closed door box cars, and passenger cars...it's a little too thick to use under a flat car, but it's a suggestion that I'm going to work on more

Try this one Catt http://www.naut-res-guild.org/shopnotes/Scale/Scale_Feet.htm It's got a conversion for at least listings in feet, I'll find a better one and post it in an edit

LOL, I get that way too sometimes...I think one thing and type something else. Anyone who has a problem working in any other scale should pick up an engineers or an architects triangle sided ruler...It gives you 11 different scales on each. I have one of each and I don't use any other rulers for...

That's centimeters...LOL...a killy meter would be a very long ruler....lol...acually being a canadian myself I mix imperial and metric in model railroading, all my benchwork and grades are done with the imperial system, all my buildings and scratchbuilding I do in metric. 1:32 scale is acually...

Catt, This is an awesome idea. The more ideas we can come up with, the more ideas we'll have when we read someone elses. Styrene to Wood: Use a file and scrape across the styrene the way you want the grain to go, then use a black ink to rub onto the styrene. Use a cloth to wipe the...

I've seen that here in London too Robin. Once in the almost two years I have been out here, I have seen it only once. I'm quite sure that they contracted the work of building the hood to some local company, and it's shipped via truck to the shop to put on the frame. Probably a custom hood for...

I have found a website that offers printables in O scale of all sorts of interior items that I'm sure scaling down to the size you want and printing them would be benificial to the detailed interiors alot of us want...everything from TV's and VCR's to pizza boxes and wallpaper...all that has to...

Hey, I got dibs on the Ford Motor Company...afterall a plant is right along the CN line that I am basing my Iron Ridge on. LOL... That, the Kellogg's plant, GMD Canada, Dufasco, Sunoco, and 3M are the main industries coming to my layout...all of which are going to be scratchbuilt. NICE JOB CATT...

Wow, Shamus, that's incredible, YOU DA MAN!!!! I am still in awe of your work. I love the weathering on the duplex and water carrier.

I am presently scratching a set of passenger cars, I was wondering if anyone has ever scratchbuilt rolling stock with cardstock? I have all the sizes, but is there anything else I need to know? I'm limiting my passenger train to two cars, which I plan on using as a commuter train for now until I...

I'm waiting for your black backdrop with the fiberoptics installed in it with a flasher hooked up to different color bulbs. PICTURES PLEASE!!! The mistake alot of modellers in this hobby make is that they build spectacular models that revolve around the railroad, but they forget the little guys...

It's good to see people who keep this hobby in it's roots where a building is an extension of someone's prefrence and not what's commercially available. My father once told me that model railroading was an art, an art in which one could express him or her self by the model he or she builds. It's...

Sumpter250 Being rolling stock deficient, I haven't really much I can kitbash. I'm on a scratchbuilding spree and hope to have 75 pieces of rolling stock all scratched from household items. Right now I'm working on some TOFC flat cars and trailers. My $$$$ situation forces me to find ways to...

Rory, Looks like your copper ridge is coming along nicely. I love those ore jimmy's. They look cool, and you can have tons of them behind a loco at a time. I'd say that your mine would classify as kitbashing. Well done

As usual, I am in awe of your talent Robin. I wonder what you used to make that water look so realistic? Kinda looks like the Fraser River in Mission on a windy day. Very nicely done. You should have another industry on your layout that will see more action then all the others ROBIN'S CARDBOARD...

Thanks for the compliments guys, the rest of my fleet will be made of cardstock. Also some new projects I am going to try to scratchbuild are a fleet of coal hoppers, 3 bay covered hoppers, a fleet of flat cars and some box cars. Approximatly 3/4 of my rolling stock quantity will be...

This is my first scratchbuild of rolling stock. I built it from plans in Model Railroader Nov 2001. Origionally set as a three car set, I opted to model single cars. Styrene makes up the frame, the running boards are acually the roofwalk from an hopper car. The handrails are handrails from a...